Death on a country road / Desmond Fahy
- Bib ID:
- 4103239
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Fahy, Desmond, 1969-
- Description:
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- Douglas Village, Cork : Mercier Press, c2006
- 191 p., [4] p. of plates, : ill., ports. ; 20 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 9781856355032
- 1856355039
- Summary:
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"On 24 August 1975 Sean Farmer and Colm McCartney travelled to Dublin for the All Ireland football semi-final between Derry and Dublin at Broke Park. In the early hours of the following morning their bodies were found lying on a country road in south Armagh. Sean had been shot six times, Colm four. A bogus security checkpoint was operating in the area and the men had been diverted off the main route north and towards the waiting gunmen as they made their way home." "Death on a Country Road looks at the deaths of Sean Farmer and Colm McCartney and draws upon the experiences of the family members and friends they left behind. It examines the eye-witness accounts of those who found their bodies and analyses the investigation that was carried out into the murders. This book evokes the murderous period in which the men lived and attempts to recreate the events of a day that began in excited anticipation of a big football match and ended in bloodshed."--BOOK JACKET.
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2006
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